UZ(1)

✨ UZ(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the mtools manual, and this little icon is called uz 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

uz — gunzips and extracts a gzip'd tar'd archive 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

uz file

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: uz extracts a gzip'd tar'd archive, which is literally just a tar(1) archive that got squished with the gzip(1) utility. two steps, one command, main character energy 👑

ngl though, on Debian GNU/Linux you lowkey don't need it, because the GNU tar(1) program already does the exact same thing with this:

tar -xzf file

so why does it still exist? bestie, it's here because the mtools package ships it for other platforms that don't have that GNU tar luxury ✨, and it's been retained here for completeness. no cap, it's just the polite thing to do 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Robert King (Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au) wrote this page for the Debian/GNU mtools package. we love a documentation king ⭐

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mtools(1)
• gzip(1)
• tar(1)
• lz(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was from the Mtools Users Manual, dated Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EET 2000 — yeah she's an elder millennial, we still stan. periodt 💅🎀